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I've heard that the aztecs sometimes practiced ritual cannibalism, by making a sort of soup with one sacrificed person. However, the population of Tenochtitlan was in the hundreds of thousands. Was there enough soup for everyone?

by /u/Frigorifico in /r/AskHistorians

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